Spicy prawn guksu set, with deep fried spicy drumstick. So it was a cold windy day and I stepped into this Korean joint, expecting the noodles to be all annyeonghaseyo and I got bloody prawn mee with chilli paste. Warmed me up good, though. 3.6/5 Guksu Noodle House 3 Temasek…
Black Sesame Bingsu – red bean paste, powdered soybean Korean rice cakes, sesame powder and almond flakes on shaved milk. Like a grainy desert that miraculously comes alive from the nourishment of the milk poured from heaven – the dry sandy sesame powder becomes deliciously pasty, the red bean paste…
My Aromatic Prawn Noodle, dry with Tom Yum base and added mushrooms. Essentially springy instant noodle meets prawn cracker fries, annoyingly-shelled prawns and shrimpy chilli paste in a dimly lit Thai massage parlour. I piled on the green and red sliced chilli, mixed the chilli paste real nice with the…
Baked chicken skin, foie gras purée, spiced mango, tarragon and curry. Although it looks as if mango and foie gras left little poop swirls, this dish is definitely more hit than shit – the crispy chicken skin is a delightful mix of sweet and savoury, with the Maggi-esque curry powder…
Mini Spanish Breakfast – egg, mushroom purée, chorizo and potato espuma. Essentially how an egg would taste if it were the product of a hen’s tawdry liaison with a very charming pizza with a handlebar moustache. 3.7/5 Esquina 16 Jiak Chuan Road Singapore 089267
Mille feuille sushi – layered sushi with salmon, tamago and tuna, topped with salmon roe. Sushi enters mid-life crisis and takes an impulsive trip to France, not knowing what to do with her life, and then she stops outside a pastry shop and goes hmmm. The first sushi item I…
Red bean and sweet potato patbingsu, with mochi and green tea ice cream. Essentially ice kachang who carbo-loads and gyms listening to G-Dragon or T-Koala or whichever androgynous cutie pie Korean boy is “in” these days. The mashed sweet potato (which colour is randomly purple or yellow depending on how…
Ichiya Dori – grilled chicken served with lemon and yuzu pepper. The crispy skin, despite being slightly lemoned, crackled wonderfully like a dried leaf under Miu Miu stiletto heels, while the dainty petite lump of yuzu pepper, easily the best thing that happened to chicken in Japanese cuisine, added a…
Mix Bara Kaisen Don – assorted seafood sashimi chunks on rice. This is the lunch set, which is excellent value for money since you get chawanmushi, mochi, miso soup and a salad along with the generous servings of sashimi chunks! The chunks were nicely cubed and fat, and the bowl…